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The Faculty of Laws of University College London is looking to appoint an outstanding candidate to lead the Private International Law module of the Notarial Practice Course, who will work closely with the Course Director in managing teaching and learning materials, maintaining a Moodle page, leading workshops, preparing assessments to monitor students’ progress, and marking […]

In a jugdgment dated 13/05/2024 (judgment No. 768/2024), the Thessaloniki Court of Appeal ruled that the Belgian rule on the effect of introducing a lawsuit on prescription was not contrary to Greek public policy. Facts The parties entered into a private agreement for commercial cooperation and the provision of consultancy services. The agreement was concluded […]

This post was contributed by Volodymyr Ponomarov, who is a Legal Assistant at the Bergwill Group, Geneva and a doctoral candidate in private international law, Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University. A job applicant domiciled in Belgium applies for a position in Lyon. A French employer screens applications with a ranking tool supplied by a German […]

The second issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2026 was published last July. It contains two articles dealing with private international law issues and a number of casenotes. The editorial by the journal’s editors draws on the Paris court’s judgment of 12 March 2026 on duty of vigilance, analysed here (De l’art de […]

Private International Law Towards Global Governance: The Theory and Practice of Post-Eclecticism by Meirong Zhang, Associate Professor at the Law School, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has been published by Routledge. The blurb reads: Adopting a pioneering ‘post-eclectic’ paradigm, this book systematically establishes that private international law must integrate ‘global common values’ into […]

On 24 September 2026, the CJEU ruled in Case C‑176/25 [Steizer] on the respective scopes of the lex loci delicti and the lex contractus in a claim of infringement of copyrights where the validity of the assignment of the copyright the plaintiff was challenged on a formal validity ground. The most interesting part of the […]

This post was prepared as part of the activities of the EAPIL Working Group on Anti-SLAPP Directive Transpositions. Directive (EU) 2024/1069 on the protection of persons engaging in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims and abusive court proceedings (hereinafter, ‘Directive’) was adopted on 11 April 2024 and had to be transposed by 7 May 2026. […]

This post was written by Dr. Emeric Prévost, Research fellow at the University of Vienna (Austria) and currently visiting scholar at the University of Kyushu (Japan). As it has been already reported on this blog (here and here), the European Commission (EC) is currently consulting the public by means of a general and targeted consultations […]

As the readers of this blog will recall, the Lindemann Fellowship for Private International Law was established in 2024 to provide early-career researchers with the opportunity to build a network with academics from all over Europe. Fellows are accepted for a three-year period, with new Fellows joining each year, as existing Fellows complete their tenure. […]

Sandrine Brachotte (University of Antwerp, UCLouvain, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)’s Conflicts of Worldviews and Private International Law is out. This book develops a decolonial theory of European private international law. To do so, it begins with Western court cases involving what the author terms a ‘conflict of worldviews’: a clash between the legal frameworks governing the […]

Professor Ulla Liukkunen, a distinguished scholar of private international law, comparative law, and labour law at the University of Helsinki, celebrated her 60th birthday on 12 September. The collected volume Navigating Interconnected Social Justice: Liber Amicorum in Honour of Ulla Liukkunen pays tribute to Professor Liukkunen. Edited by Katja Karjalainen and Iina Tornberg and published […]

The coming weeks will bring two developments in the case law of the Court of Justice in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters.  The Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona in case C-697/25, Appenzell, is scheduled to be delivered on 1 October. In September 2024, the Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy Office of Appenzell […]

The latest issue of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Volume 46, Issue 3) features two articles of relevance to private international law. Roxana Banu, Constructing Imperial Authority: The Intersection of British Imperial Constitutional Law and Private International Law, 597–623 Historians and constitutional law scholars are starting to uncover the imperial dimensions of the British […]

The transatlantic debate over the European Union’s corporate sustainability framework has entered a new phase. Following the substantial amendments introduced through the EU’s recent simplification agenda, in August 2026 the Government of the United States has submitted detailed comments on the forthcoming implementation guidance for Directive (EU) 2024/1760 (the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – […]

This post was written by Laima Vaigė, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Private International Law at Uppsala University. On 8 September 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment in A.A. v the Netherlands (Application no. 7481/23), concerning a refusal of family reunification between a refugee father living in the Netherlands […]

Luis de Lima Pinheiro (University of Lisbon) has posted Law Applicable to International AI Torts – A Note on a Forthcoming Contribution on SSRN. The abstract reads: This note summarizes the analysis, key insights and proposals advanced in the contribution “Law Applicable to International AI Torts: An Introduction”, forthcoming in Memorial Publication in Honour of Prof. […]

On 1 September 2026, the European Commission launched an open public consultation and a call for evidence as part of the formal review of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia Regulation). The initiative seeks feedback on the functioning of the Regulation and on possible targeted amendments to simplify, modernise and clarify the existing framework governing […]

In a decision of 27 August 2026, the Danish Supreme Court held that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) could not invoke immunity from jurisdiction in proceedings brought by a dismissed employee. The Court found that the OSCE PA’s internal disciplinary procedure did not offer a reasonable alternative means […]

On 15 September 2026, the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) submitted a position paper in response to the public consultation on the Draft UNIDROIT–ICC Principles and Model Clauses for International Investment Contracts. The paper was prepared by a working group formed by Olaf Meyer (University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt, Germany), Albert Henke (Università […]

The author of this post is  Javier Carrascosa González who is a Professor of Private International Law at the University of Murcia. A new book under the title “Libre circulación de personas y libre circulación de las familias: análisis de derecho internacional privado” (“Free movement of persons and free movement of families: analysis of private […]